Vaida Jasiulevičienė
UNIQUE CHILD

Audronė Masiukienė
FEAR LAB

Fear lab helps young people understand and overcome their fears. We provide the knowledge how to talk about the difficulties of describing the various solutions and let the young person choose the suitable one.We work with pupils, students, disadvantaged young people, youth in a social exclusion, blind children and children with other disabilities. We apply a variety of attractive and interactive methods that are suitable and interesting for each of them.

Giedrė Šopaitė-Šilinskienė
Anksti.lt

Giedre‘s goal is to give all-around support to the families of premature babies. The e-platform Anksti.lt will offer a range of specific preemie care products and help baby‘s parents, siblings and all others who surround the family.

Rita Žogelė
Uniq Dance

Rita propose dance activities for children with special needs. These dance lessons improves posture, physical and brain condition, sensomotoric and social skills. Rita propose not only dance lessons, but the better integration in society, too. The organization "Unikalus šokis" will organize various events, tour that can help to comunicate
more about childrens with special needs and help them to be full-fledged members of society.

Darius Juravičius
Internet surfer

Reda Rukene
Give kids a voice

Anna Lindh and Thomas Breisten
Right To Play

Right to Play Sweden is run by Anna Lindh and Thomas Breisten with the vision of creating a healthier and safer society through education, play and sport. Through capacity building of unaccompanied youth and making them active participants in sport clubs this creates a natural forum for successful integration.

Elin Wernquist
Barnrättsbyrån

Barnrättsbyrån works with children and young people’s human rights. It is Sweden’s first advocacy service devoted to children’s rights which offer individual children and young people practical help, support and advice.

Natassia Fry & Pegah Afsharian
Kompis Ungdom

Kompis Ungdom is a buddy program connecting established Swedes with newly arrived youth with the aim to erase cultural and social barriers among Swedish youth. Kompis Ungdom’s vision is to build long lasting friendship between peers in order to reduce cultural polarization and to combat exclusion in Sweden.

Sandra Kinnaman Nordström
The Good Talents

The Good Talents is leadership and social entrepreneurship programs for youth. The program aims to give youths the knowledge, tools and networks needed to survive in an increasingly unstable job market. The Good Talents provides companies, municipalities and civil society organizations an unique opportunity to meet, interact and forge relationships with young people they would never come in contact with otherwise.

Imad Elabdala
Kidnovation

Rebecca Madhani
Mitt Livs Val

Mitt Livs Val believes in an inclusive society in which all newly arrived youth have equal choices in life as much as the ‘established’ Swedes. Building on that belief, they have created the first large-scale mentorship program between Swedish students and unaccompanied refugee youth to provide them with a path to attend higher education in Sweden and reduce cultural polarization.

AnneSofie Blixt
Tilia

Lina Lagerbäck
We Unite Design

We United Design, founded by Lina Lagerbäck, builds educational spaces created by youth, that are engaging, creative and where their voices are represented. They empower youth to take ownership over their physical environments around them and do it in an environmentally friendly way.

Julia Östfeldt
Föreningen Tillsammans

Föreningen Tillsammans actively works to spread knowledge about sexual violence and its consequences through lectures and sharing their own stories with the aim to reduce sexual violence. Föreningen Tillsammans also work with support groups both for individuals who have been exposed to sexual violence, group work and mentorship programs.

Sissa Pagels & Louise Lindén
Young Innovation Hub

Young Innovation Hub identifies and educates young leaders and role models to build hubs for young entrepreneurship and change work - locally and globally. Through social innovation and start-up methods, young role models and change agents grow through Young Innovation Hub's meetings and networks.

Gunilla Lundberg
IT Guide

IT Guide offers evening or holiday work opportunities to unaccompanied and newly arrived minors that are recruited to become IT guides, educating seniors in IT. The tasks assigned could include general help with internet and other mobile services. Simultaneously, the youth learn Swedish, gain work experience and develop their strengths.

Kiiya JK
C-Sema

C-Sema runs the National Child Helpline (CHL) in-collaboration with the Government of Tanzania. The National Child Helpline helps children in need of care and protection through a toll-free 116 telephone line available across all networks in Tanzania.

Ernest Gavor
Moja App

Ernest runs an innovative mobile-health solution that plans to increase voluntary blood donation and bridge critical gaps within the blood transfusion supply chain. His goal is to make blood readily available to mothers and children in need.

Elisaveta Belobradova Krasimira Hadjiivanova
Ole Male

Anthony Agee-kum
Edutainment Homework Canopy

Edutainment Homework Canopy provides light and space that children require to do their homework and read their schoolbooks. With various activities available to generate enthusiasm for learning among the children, as well as community volunteer teachers who serve as role models, the homework canopy is an environment where learning is fun, and success is never far from reach.

Nikoleta Popkostadinova
LOVE GUIDE

Didier Lalaye
SMS Lifeline

Didier combats the high prevalence of bilharzia by identifying the disease quickly through simple mobile testing units that use a feature phone to test for the disease! He has set up mobile testing units in villages which are vulnerable to the disease and face shortages in health care facilities. With his device children and adults can be diagnosed even without the need for them to leave their villages!

Mikael Højbjerg & Thomas Mose
ORDBLINDETRÆNING

Mikael Højbjerg and Thomas Mose have created "Ordblindetræning" an online platform that provides dyslexic aid training for children, in private as well as in school. The tool can target the specific needs of the child with dyslexia, adjusting for the child’s age, degree of dyslexia and the environment in which the dyslexia training is taking place.

Cordie Aziz
Environment 360

Turning trash into cash is an innovative idea that helps communities stay healthy and create economic empowerment. Using cartoon characters like Jaku and the Earth Defenders, Cordie believes we can change behavioral patterns and help people learn to make a variety of useful products from waste items.

Erick Joseph
Family Wallet

Erick has developed a digital application that helps informal workers save a portion of their earnings. It also tracks their income and expenses to help them build credit, access loans and create a better life for themselves and their families through access to financial services.

Jean Luc Semedo & Evelyne Ines
Hope: Mon sang pour sauver des vies

Jean and Evelyne have developed a web and mobile application platform to promote blood donation by registering blood donors and encouraging them to donate. The duo has already partnered with 19 blood banks in Senegal, and they plan to scale using SMS as a platform to roll out their initiative across the country. Their platform will use SMS and voice messages in French and in local languages to reach as many people as possible.

Rūdolfs Cešeiko & Līva Jankēviča
Kids Gym

Mariam Mayoumbila
Kadja-Kossi

Mariam's social enterprise fights the huge problem of violence among Chadian children by equipping schools and parents with tools that use culture and self-expression to break the negative cycle of violence in schools.

Carolyne Ekyarisiima
Apps & Girls

Samuel Gyabah
Samalex Solutions

Samalex Solutions provides micro flush toilets to local schools and rural communities solving the problem of proper and hygienic waste disposal facilities in Ghana with a simple and affordable solution.

Veronika Lendler
YOUNG HELPERS

Young Helpers project supports and empowers children who are facing specific challenges of disability in the family. These children – Young Helpers – are provided with individual support and counseling as well as group support. The project also deals with advocacy aimed at formal recognition of Young Helpers in the social care system.

Sharnel Deo
PEN Tanzania

Sharnel runs a Mobile Computer lab for public primary schools, a project which is implemented by PEN Tanzania Organization to improve the quality of ICT education and learning outcome in Tanzania. This project integrates the use of ICT through provision of computer training in primary schools.

Jelena Ribić
Family Tales

Family Tales is a community of writers who create tailor-made fairy tales for children in orphanages based on the experiences of each individual child with a goal of increasing their self-confidence and eliminating fears and trauma.

Alice Amoako
Autism Ambassadors of Ghana

Alice's organization conducts autism awareness activities that will change the the way Ghana and the world look view people with autism. She has developed an app that educates and informs the public about autism and also provides an emergency response system for caregivers of autistic children, who are often marginalized in society.

Patricia Ronel Neldingar
ADTIC

Patricia has developed a mobile platform that parents can use to follow up on their child's development in school. This platform allows parents to be actively involved in their child's progress and keep the school and their children accountable!

Sara Yeboah
THE SANGY NURSING SERVICES

Masresha Beniam
DigiET It Training Centre

Masresha runs a training center that provides interactive, practical and real time training in programming and coding. The centre promotes skills in software and mobile app development among youth - especially girls - to bring about quality products to the world and fill the digital gap, while solving real world problems.

Ishmael Hammond
Special Attention Project

Ishmael has a mEducation solution which enables effective teaching of the English language using the phonetics of a local dialect (Twi ) for children with learning difficulties in Ghana. The App is multi-sensory and self-correcting, and can be used by schools, families and individuals.

Belinda Hornshøj
HeartWork

Belinda Hornshøj has come up with the concept of HeartWork, a way of including social entrepreneurship in the public school system by making use of the interdependency between pre- or ground school children and senior citizens. The exchange of experience and close connection between old and young benefit all children and seniors - but especially those children that thrive less in the public school system and the seniors that are the most vulnerable.

Faraja Nyalandu
Shule Direct

Eva Fog
DIGIPIPPI

DigiPippi is an online portal that strives to meet girls where they are, and in doing so, make information technology feel more relevant and interesting to them. On the portal, the girls learn about women who have made a career within the IT world, which will help them identify with these role models who share their interest. Through its community chats, forums, and offline social events, the girls will be able to live out, develop, and expand their interest for IT with like-minded peers.

Mārtiņš Gulbis
Science School Laboratorium

Science School Laboratorium offers summer science camps and a program with systematic weekly lessons in physics and chemistry - informative, cognitive and fascinating at the same time. The goal is to let children, in the ages 8 to 16 to fall in love with science and choose profession connected to this field in the future.

Elizabeth Monteil
Cybercase

By addressing the need for internet connectivity in rural areas Elisabeth has found an solution that addresses social inclusion and education for children. Her “Cyberspaces” provide internet connection, laptops and computers in villages, as well as a place for trainings and access to information technology for young students and apprentices.

We strengthen self-confidence of youth without parental care for independence and labor market integration with specialized trainings in CV development, coordinating finances and networking with employers.

Svetlana Smurigina & Natalya Rumyantseva
INCLUSIVE HORSE THEATRE

Baiba Blomniece-Jurāne
BARBOLETA

BARBOLETA has developed a wooden balance board - unique and innovative tool for interactive learning that improves children intellectual and learning abilities. Using the product increases attention, engagement and reduces stress levels for a child. As a result, children learn new study material much quicker and feel much happier about themselves, level of anxiety goes down significantly.

Ezinne Okparaebo
Ezinne Athletics

Tore Neergaard Kjellow
Skolen i Spil

The method Skolen i Spil uses games and gamethinking to make teaching relevant for the students, and to make the long school days more fun. The game frame gives the children better well-being and greater motivation for the academic work.

Ksenija & Siniša Benaković
Iskrice

This program of professional personal support offers systematic workshops for development of critical, creative and scientific thinking, emotional intelligence and various useful skills to gifted children.

Katarina Lončarić
Ku-kuc! Priča je unutra

“Ku-kuc! The Story is Inside” is contributing to increasing the quality of life and relationship between parents and children using the help of thematic products, different play materials and common leisure time activities.

Zhanna Karatai
Adaptive ski lessons "Pioneer"

Zhanna and her team are developing methodology for the rehabilitation and inclusion of kids with autism spectrum disorder. This methodology includes special summer mountain camps for kids and adaptive ski lessons in winter.

Predrag Mraović
Sunflower Power

This project aims to teach children and youth about entrepreneurship by creating a local eco gift shop where education and arts and crafts activities will be held and local people can sell their items.

Israel A. Yeboah
Unilynq

Israel is using his organization Unilynq to eliminate the use of traditional student data storage in
paper form while increasing the number of students passing their exam each year. Unilynq is a data
storage system and an e-learning platform for students that keeps track of their academic data and
helps students to enhance their learning. Unilynq is an online web application that can be used across
various platforms including PCs and mobile devices.

Milena Basara
CREATIVE ASSOCIATION

Creative Association «Hands» supports and empowers children in least developed communities with high-quality educational content as a basis for building their own future. This project specifically supports children who travel to school and, due to low development index of their community, spend hours waiting for school bus, by offering them access and participation in development programs.

Sam Zizinga
Cartoon Home Network

Sam is working to change the way that children learn, helping them to do better school. His Cartoon Home Network provides school-aged children with video simulations that provide practical demonstrations of the theory covered in the curriculum, to help them better retain concepts. Sam is currently building digital videos to support curriculum in all science courses in nursery, primary and secondary school levels.

Aibek Yessimov
MMDANCE Social creative centre

Wilson & Zakiya Amooro
Trash4Books

This dynamic duo is creating a viable chamber orchestra with violins made from trash. This initiative seeks to create a cleaner, healthier, happier & better educated society through the power of classical music and recycling.

Neema Shosho
Afya Slices

Afya Slices uses digital tools to provide nutritional information targeting mothers, caretakers and health
providers to reduce the infant mortality rate and malnutrition among children up to five years old. Neema's social innovation uses a mobile platform to provide information on how to use locally available & affordable food to improve child nutrition.

Tesfanesh Tadesse
Akinbalo Trading PLC

Tesfanesh supports a particularly vulnerable group - teenage mothers and street mothers who have no access to employment or health services - by providing counselling, vocational training and employment through the baking and selling of injera.

Louis NGABONZIZA
Empowering Children with Disabilities

In Rwanda, children with hearing impairments can be excluded from formal education and society at large, resulting in illiteracy, stigmatization in their communities and socio-economic marginalization as adults. Louis’ organization Empowering Children with Disabilities is working to change this and to ensure that deaf children access the resources they need to succeed. By providing hearing impaired children and youth with formal education, technology and vocational skills, Louis is working to build a generation of confident, self-sufficient young Rwandans.

Metasebia Mammo
ACUMEN

Milena Tashkova Sofia Ferdinandova
Life by the Kilo

Milena Tashkova and Sofia Ferdinandova founded Life by the Kilo with the aim of preventing eating disorders among pupils in the 5th-12th grade. They want to show pupils the connection between eating habits, emotions and the way they see themselves.

Henriette Karlsen
De Stærke Børn

The idea for De Stærke Børn (The Strong Children) came from founder Henriette Karlsens own experiences of a troubled childhood. Henriette was abused, experienced neglect of care and was placed outside the home several times throughout her childhood. These experiences of neglect from the public system fueled her desire of taking responsibility for the vulnerable children and their families. She simply felt that something had to be done.

Linda Ansong
STEMbees

Linda has a passion for IT and believes that everyone, girls and boys, young and old, can learn how to code and create apps and IT tools. She thinks that if children received a more solid S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education, they would have more chances to succeed in their adult life. Therefore, she will open a centre where children will be taught ICT and STEM in a fun and very practical way, through the actual production of products that can eventually be sold in the market.

Diāna Mekša
SOLIS AUGŠUP

SOLIS AUGŠUP is a day centre for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A place where professionals (speech therapist, ABA therapist, ergotherapist, masseur) and volunteers work together to improve the life quality of children with autism and to support their families.

Eva Viļķina
House of Hope

Social care center for underage mothers and mothers, who are abused in a family. In the center mothers will get professional psychological support, learn how to take care of their baby, different profession skills and will receive help to finish school.

Evelyne Naotordene
NaoFood

Evelyne Naotordene discovered that good quality foods are hard to find in schools, and parents do not know exactly what their children eat when they are at school. Through her initiative, the Naofood Project, Evelyne provides quality food to students during breaks. She works with nutritionists to identify food that are important for children’s growth and shares the menu with parents using through mobile phones!

Leka Tingitana
EAFYA

Leka Tingitana is a tech specialist with a passion for creating digital solutions to problems in the health sector. Through his company LX Technological Solutions for Africa, Leka is developing a mobile communications platform EAFYA, to support the emerging network of Community Health Workers (CHWs) who are on the front-line in providing healthcare support to expectant and new mothers.

Daniela Sadikova & Boyana Kotseva
ParaKids

Dominique Uwase Alonga
Imagine We

Dominique is a young activist who is using her organization, Imagine We, to create a vibrant reading culture among children in Rwanda. Imagine We organizes national read-a-thon events and is working to equip schools across the country with their own libraries. The read-a-thon program is implemented through an interactive, child-friendly website and mobile app that children use to enter the competition and to find interesting and fun reading materials.

Anne Stine Hole
Generasjon M

Generasjonsmøtet M aims to provide job opportunities for youth, whilst also tending to the needs of the elderly. They offer part time jobs to youth aged 14 – 19, who in turn visit elderly at nursing homes, who often are lonely and inactive.

Jesper Willeforte
Livsbanen

Livsbanen offers studio sessions for vulnerable young people between 13 and 18 years old living in exposed residential areas. Through his initiative, Livsbanen, professional and upcoming rappers teach the young people to write, perform and record their own music, while acting as role models for the young people.

Cecilia Fiaka
Nneka Youth Foundation

Cecilia Fiaka helps children from having their childhoods cut short by teenage pregnancy, drug use and incomplete education. Nkeka Youth Foundation has touched the lives of thousands of Ghanaian kids through summer camps, tours, educational programs and career development, instilling a sense of self-worth and ambition that helps the youth focus on their future goals and dreams.

Yves Iradukunda
Academic Bridge

Yves runs Academic Bridge, a social enterprise that empowers schools to efficiently collect and manage student's information and share this information with parents. This helps to improve the education system for children by creating environments in which parents are fully involved in their child's education and development.

Fassika Fikre

Gulmira Amatova
Kid’s Development Academy "Zhas Kemenger”

Zhas Kemenger Development Center is unique because children are not only learning Kazakh language there but they are taught in this language. Center is using unique individual methology created by its teachers.

Khalid Fadoul
Technidev

Khalid Fadoul's social innovation addresses the lack of quality content for students as well as teachers, resulting in low academic performance in Chad. Khalid's organization Technidev develops quality educational contents that students could access using their mobile phones or computers.

Clarissa Meister-Petersen
FILIORUM

Clarissa Meister-Petersen has created Filiorum and the initiative "Dramatic Art on the School Timetable", an innovative learning concept that integrates professional theatrical performances with courses of study that are tailor-made for the specific pupils and the individual schools.

Innocent Sulle
My Little Travelling Library

Innocent James' "My Little Travelling Library" concept is creating a network of mobile handcart libraries bringing books, run interactive reading classes and reading competitions for children in rural areas. Through this work, Innocent aims to inspire a reading culture among a generation of children, increasing literacy levels and independent learning.

Silvena Hristova & Krassimir Lambov
Life with Down Syndrome

The project Life with Down Syndrom aimes to provoke the interest and awareness of the society towards the Down Syndrome trough a series of entertaining and informative video clips of Krassimir and Silvena’s children - Kris and Mikaela who is diagnosed with the Syndrom.

Meruyert Argimbayeva
Charity shop "Radost"

Nhana Samba
Le Geste

Nhana runs a training & integration program, Le Geste, that uses digital tools to educate hearing impaired children, breaking barriers and introducing them to the world of technology. Le Geste staff visit special schools for hearing impaired children and provide software and tools that allows them to use the Internet fully and free from barriers.

Randolph Rodrigues & Wolanyo Amoah
TTD Media Limited

This wonderful tag team is working on an Interactive platform to share the process of reading and writing stories/novels. The platform will allow anyone to sign up for an account – they can write and share their own stories as well as contribute to those being created by other members of the network.

Nina & Vladimir Nikiforovi
WHITE HORSE GALLERY

Patrick Kabangiro
ITOO PALUCHECK

Patrick runs an innovative solution called "itoo palucheck"; a medical mobile app that diagnoses malaria through infrared and Internet. With this amazing innovation, there is no need of a blood sample, or a microscope! This solution will also allow health professionals to do their activities quickly and effectively, reducing the death rate of malaria infected patients.

Auxilia Ndamage
Afrovector

Auxilia is working to include Rwanda's farmers in the financial system by digitizing the agriculture value chain and providing farmers with access to financial services like savings, loans and pensions so that they can provide their families with a better future.

Tatjana Aćimović
Uključi me kulturno

The goal of the project "Culture? Count me in" is to make cultural activities more accessible to children and adults with disabilities, who are currently unable to equally participate in cultural events due to the lack of adaptation to their visual, hearing and physical needs.

Kirsten Birk Olsen
Følgeskabet

Kirsten Birk Olsen has founded Følgeskabet (The Followship), which works with establishing strong leadership communities in the daycare centers and kindergartens. Leaders and representatives of the parents attend courses, seminars, and/or development conversations in order to create a unified and agreed upon path for the cooperation between the parents and employees, for the benefit of the children.

Joan Avit
GraphoGame

GraphoGame Tanzania aims at improving quality of early childhood education through the dissemination of a child-friendly, game-based, educational innovation designed to help children learn reading easier and effectively.

Adoumkidjim Naiban
CESER Tchad

Adoumkidjim has created the first center designed specifically for children with mental disabilities in Chad, where they can get education and vocational skills. Alongside educating children, his social enterprise is also working to support families of mentally disabled children and reduce societal stigma about mental disability.

Razak and Abdul want to eliminate preventable disease and improve child health in Ghana. They provide a system that sends SMS and automated voice calls that remind parents of their child’s vaccinations and health checkups so that children's health is never overlooked.

Anna Tikhomirova
BUMPER BOOK BUS

Stoyana Stoeva & Maya Doneva
SOCIAL TEAHOUSE

The Teahouse of Maya Doneva and Stoyana Stoeva aims to provide first job to young people raised in institutions as an instrument for achieving independent lifestyle and social environment of high quality.

Gabriella Meinert-Medici
Genklange

Genklange makes use of classical music to develop children's recreational and immersion skills, as well as their language skills. The music is made into a common language where everyone can participate regardless of ethnic origin.

Josephine Marie Godwyll
Young at Heart Gh

Josephine founded Young at Heart Gh to improve education in rural areas in Ghana. Her solution
makes use of technology to improve the learning experience of children in rural schools by
empowering them with basic computer skills, setting up ICT learning hubs equipped with computers
and educational software and encouraging the use of these facilities for distant learning tutorials.

Tina Nielsson
F.O.K.U.S.

New connections are formed and those that already exist, are strengthened. The eyesight is optimized as to improve the signals the brain receives, and the coordination is strengthened through many different, fun and diversified exercises. In short, it’s exercise for the brain. This allows for a more diversified and inclusive way of education, both for the many and for the vulnerable and challenged few.

Tina Marie Tsiplakis
Mangfold Forlag

Atilay Korkmaz
MATEMATIKVANSKELIGHEDER

Matematikvanskeligheder (Mathematical Difficulties) offers to help children and young people with mathematical challenges. The goal is to help the children in their everyday life with mathematics and to improve their opportunities for later education.

Serwah Quaynor
AACT Ghana

Serwah is a trained nurse practitioner and has experience working as a women's health educator. Serwah's 27 year old son was diagnosed with autism when he was a child and upon her return to Ghana from the United States found out there was no educational support for her son. The lack of educational programs for children with autism motivated her to start the AACT centre. A centre that trains caregivers all over the country, ensuring all children with autism get care and education, which is their right.

Ernestina Appiah
Ghana Code Club

The Ghana Code Club connects elementary school children to computer science activities in their schools. It provides clubs for children between the ages of 8-16 to gain basic computing skills while learning to make their own games, animations and websites. The Ghana Code Club places an emphasis on programs for girls in an effort to close the digital gender gap.

Dinara Mussakhanova
Training and production center 'preodoleyKA'

Dinara has created a center, where children from low income families and children with disabilities can get knowledge and skills in order to get financial rewards for their work and have prosperous independent life in future.

Mirjana Bijelić
Put - podrška u tugovanju

Rasmus Thøger Christensen
LIVSKRAFT

LIVSKRAFT organize rehabilitation camps for young people affected by cancer and their siblings. At the camps the young people develop their personal, social, creative and physical strengths, and learn how to use their course of illness to make them stronger.

Erasmus Acko & Marian Ewuram
IT4Teens

Knowing just how important ICT skills are in an increasingly digital world, Erasmus Ackon and Marian Ewurama Wiredu saw an opportunity to help combat poverty through skills development. With a target on children aged 8 and up, the pair founded IT4Teens to train young people in topics ranging from basic computer skills to app development and graphic design to make them competitive and relevant in the job market and ensure a brighter future.

Olga Kolpakova
YOUTH VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT

Herman Hesse
E-Read Right Foundation

E-Reach Right foundation provides a book and digital app to help students improve their reading, writing, spelling, pronunciation and academic performance through a vocabulary assessment and enhancement program.

Thadei Msumanje
Tanzania Rural Empowerment Organization (TAREO)

Artem Sorokin
JOINER'S SHOP "RUKI OTTUDA"

Artem coordinates Joiner's shop "RukiOttuda" where children with disabilities can learn joinery meanwhile earning some money, building relations with other people and taking responsibility for their work.

Brenda-Deborah Shuma
Gabriella Rehab Centre

Children with disabilities belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in Tanzania. They are often segregated from the rest of society and other children, they are denied their right to education, and they are deprived of a chance of creating a fruitful future for themselves. Brenda Deborah Shuma is working to address this problem by empowering these children with the vocational skills they need to generate income and build a future for themselves.

Ivan Dimov Nikoleta Gabrovska
Single Step

Single Step by Ivan Dimov and Nikoleta Gabrovska provides support to LGBTI youth and their families in the difficult process of self-acceptance, coming out and affirming their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Karim GADJIGO
Mia Moké

Mia Moké is an environmental education app for African children aged 4 to 10. The app features a young African girl who takes children on an entertaining journey with her where they read, sing colour and learn about nature, biodiversity and problems related to deforestation and pollution.

Linn Tornholm & Vicky Kornblit
Projekt S

Projekt S wishes to equate mental health with physical health. Projekt S is therefore, offered as an after school activity, where young people between the ages of 10 and 16 can strengthen their self-esteem, self-worth, health and physical strength.

Viktoria Velichkova Yana Lipovanska
Margaritka

Margaritka is a project created by Vicktoria Velichkova and Yana Lipovanska with the aim to entertain and educate the youngest children (0-5) with music and 3D videos, as well as to help their parents find a way to their children.

Sijis Dienga Dikete
Enfant Foot Développement

Emile Babu
Isoko

Emile is developing a virtual marketplace to help low-income workers not only to earn more income, but also to lay the foundation for them to build credit so that they can access small loans to help their families and send their children to school.

Alexander Ponomarev Maria Genina

Sheila Osei Boakye
Literacy for Life

Literacy for Life aims to equip trainers of pupils with the skills required to lay a strong foundation for language and literacy. It also equips children with the ability to build a strong foundation for reading and literacy which is the vehicle for academic excellence.

Arkan Asaad
Right 2 Choose

Georgios Karpathakis
Underbara ADHD

Underbara ADHD is a platform where children with ADHD, their families and others can educate one another and improve their understanding of the diagnosis. The vision is that by highlighting the positive with an ADHD diagnosis children's self-image and confidence can be enforced.

Gita Rajan & Hermine Holm
WONSA

Rosie Linder & Jesper Engström
Peppy Pals

Peppy Pals is an award-winning organization developing fun, educational games and books that nurture children's Emotional Intelligence (EQ). It is a unique way of learning and experiencing emotions, empathy, collaboration and friendship without ”right or wrong

Anton Håkanson
DayCape

DayCape is a digital calendar app for people with autism, which supports them throughout their day and that they can plan at their own pace. Using the help of images and reminders the app gives the user a clear overview of the day. The app can be shared and customized, to not only make it easier to use but also to allow those taking part in your day to plan the schedule.

Madeleine Opira
A Million Minds

Madeleine is an educated lawyer who runs the think tank A Million Minds, which work to change the image of the Stockholm’s housing projects and motivate and improve the conditions for youths living there.

Aleksandrs Morozovs
YOUNG FOLKS LV

Young Folks LV is an organisation that empowers youngsters and helps them develop their skills and realise their full potential. Organisation provides various activities for youngsters, like School of Profession, leadership program Realitychangers, photography, painting, swimming and math lessons, as well as a summer camp for small kids, where youngsters become the leaders and project managers.

Anna Kašina
House of Fairytales

Ina Grasmane
LOVE HOUSE

Ina created Love House where children are looking for an answer to the question “who am I?” with the careful guidance from adults. Latvian specialists developed education, training and therapeutic system called "Pedagogy of Love" that is being implemented in the LoveHouse. This unique system is teaching children to love the life. It also teaches adults how to talk to children so that the child would get the message “We Love You!”

Deborah Ahenkorah
Golden Baobab

Through her NGO, Deborah aims to inspire the creation, ensure the production and facilitate the distribution of enthralling, high quality, culturally relevant literary content by African writers and illustrators for African children.

Marko Knežević
MARITIME HUB

Maritime HUB project combines heritage, sailing and social skills development to assist children growing up without parents or adequate parental care. Children from social care institutions are involved in learning and development of skills that help them achieve independence.

Peter Ndonwie
Paorp-Vwc

Peter has been a persistent advocate for women and children’s rights in Ghana through his organization PAORP-VWC which promotes education in areas with discrimination against women and children. The mission is to research, organize, support, expand and strengthen the activities of human rights organizations as well as women and youth groups.

Saidzhan Maximov
Tumar

Harriet Cordelia Nielsen
ASKOV RIDECENTER

Harriet Cordelia Nielsen has created Askov Ridecenter's "The Unique Offer" for physically, socially and educationally challenged children. The combination of horseback riding and educational training gives the children the opportunity of participating at school on more equal terms.

Peter Kwarteng
Neonatal Network Support System

Peter Kwarteng strives to reduce the mortality rate of newborns by giving health personnel easy access to life-saving information through movile phones. His work is improving the chances of survival for vulnerable babies through education, institutional networking and financial support for critical emergency medical care.

Anna Shelepova
SPORT CONCEPT

Anna and her team build multifunctional sports grounds in Almaty, making sport accessible for all children including children from dysfunctional families who don't have opportunity to buy special equipment.

Teibi Torm
BACK TO SCHOOL

Felix Uzor
Felix Fitness

Felix Fitness offers programs that promotes water safety by educating students and informing beach and hotel managers about proper safety precautions. Using education and advocacy, Felix has raised awareness about the risks of water activities and how to prevent drownings. He has also equipped hundreds of young people with water safety, rescue and CPR skills.

James Kofi Annan
Challenging Heights

Through education, economic empowerment and community mobilization, Challenging Heights targets at- risk, poor families to explain the dangers of child trafficking and to address the root cause of slavery.

Noella Thindwa
Congolese Children for the Future

Getter Toome
Aga Mina

Many children get injured on playgrounds each year in Estonia. Many injuries that could be prevented. Getter Toome aims to reduce these injuries in an inspiring way through her developed play and tools for both children and teachers.

Maria Lenskjold Christensen
Læseuniverset

Maria has founded and runs Læseuniverset (The Universe of Reading), which is an intensive reading and writing course offered in-house at her Læseuniverset-school. Children attending are either taken out of class or receive teaching in their school-holidays. The reading course is so efficient, that a week at Læseuniverset, on average, raises the child’s lix-number (the ability to read and write increasingly complex words) by 3 (compared to 5, on average, in a whole school year)!

Elena Timofeeva
JEWELGIRLS

Sanna Rasmussen
Familiestøtten

Familiestøtten (Family Support) helps economically disadvantaged families by matching them with resourceful families, and is thereby reducing the economic difficulties of vulnerable families, so parents get more time to be parents and children can be allowed to be children.

Yvan Bayisabe & Fredrik Mosis
VIBRO

Tamara Pracaić & Vanda Briški
LOGOPEDI BEZ GRANICA

Speech therapy services in Croatia are centralized and usually offered with a long waiting periods. This project offers online speech diagnostics and therapy for all who need it, without space or time limitations.

Mohammed S. Tahir & Marie-Eve Lemieux
DUNK

Meelis Raiend
The Spirit of Sport

The Spirit of Sport / Spordivaim joins humans who are interested in helping young people to develop, both mentally and physically, through sports. The goal is to create the environment where the young person could develop freely in the way that hi/she could fulfill his/her dreams and potential as a human being.

Sherry Hakimnejad
KOMPASS & CO

Lotte Hornemann Søjborg
Healthy Kids Academy

Lotte has come up with the idea of the “Healthy Kids Academy” (HKA), a 10-week long, specially developed weight-loss-program for overweight children and their families. In the 10-week period the children will exchange their mandatory school attendance from their normal schools to the HKA, where focus is on becoming healthy again.

Jean Toningar
BAL-Tchad & Bamisa

Regina Honu
Tech Needs Girls

Regina is addressing the gender gap in ICT by connecting girls to female computer science and engineering pros who teach and inspire the youth. Girls in the program learn critical thinking skills they need to solve problems in their communities, to build their confidence and to set them on a path to become future leaders and tech innovators.

Merit Lilleleht
Une Kool

Creating healthy sleeping routines for babies are extremely important. Merit and her team support young parents with the tools and knowledge for healthy sleeping habits for their children through consultations both at home and online.

Vladimir Kovalskiy
EXTREME SPORTS FEDERATION

Dana Narvaiša
Get to know your child

Dana identified the gap in the educational system and child upbringing, the period, where parents don't hear or understand the child needs and created the program for parents and children on how to close that gap. Because this gap exists in many families, regardless of the child specifics, this child (even from a very good family) may have problems with education and behavioural issues in the future, this child may become a bully or be bullied.

Liene Shomase
Lienes Šomases bērnu un jauniešu radošā studija

Liene has developed her own special method “Inspiring through the music with breathing underlyings”, that teaches children to see and develop their talents. Lienes studio goal is to give a possibility for children and teenagers from economically disadvantaged families, orphanages or foster families to develop their creativity and grow into confident and opinionated parts of society. Studio offers a special program that includes the art of speech, styling courses, image creation, singing and music therapy classes.

Martin Exner
CODING PIRATES

Svetlana Titova
Mentoring program for kids from orhpanages

The graduate of SOS Children's Villages Svetlana believes that every kid needs a mentor, who can give a positive example, especially kids from SOS villages and orphanages. That is why she decided to start mentoring program for orphans.

Emilian Kadiiski & Teodor Kostadinov
VRATSA SOFTWARE

Tamilya Anchutkina
Co-working "Mama Dom"

Tamilya believes that for small kids their connection with mother is very important. That is why together with her team she opened a co-working center with the playroom and a nanny where women can work near their children.

Edvard Ljulko
MINUTES OF STILLNESS

Minutes of Stillness gives children tools to become more relaxed, focused, attentive, creative and self-aware by offering teachers and parents a variety of easy and practical awareness exercises, that can be used in schools, at home or other places.

Jacques Kayisire
DREAM Team Football Academy

Half of Rwanda’s population is under 18. This means that children and youth in Rwanda need to be supported, empowered and encouraged as they have a crucial role in the future of the country. Kayisire Jacques has developed a Football and ICT Skills Training program which helps rejuvenate the Rwandan youth, increase their self-esteem, promote peace, reconciliation and unity and inspire a joyful spirit. The program will empower children through both football and computer skills.

Diana Lapkis & Anna Lokomete
BetterTogether

The idea of project LabākKopā is to integrate primary and secondary school pupils from socially disadvantaged families, boarding schools and orphanages into society. Within the project, each child gets a student-mentors, who will not only help a child to get better grades in school, but also will become his friend, an example and a role model. Students-mentors will help pupils to believe in themselves and find talents to be developed, through formal and informal teaching methods.

Mariana Mutso
CLIMBING ACADEMY

Per Nygaard
NINJA SKOLEN

Per Nygaard has created "NinjaSkolen", for children that have difficulties believing their abilities. Through role-playing, idolizing, training and playing hese children can become more confident about their own strenghts, have their self-esteem and courage level elevated and establish a better body awareness.

Pelle Plesner
FIT FOR KIDS

Pelle Plesner has established the volunteer association FitforKids providing a special weight loss program for overweight and inactive children. It brings the children energy and happiness and provides the families with excellent conditions to begin a new and healthier lifestyle.

Lily Kudzro
Devio Arts

Understanding the role that creative arts play in children’s cognitive, social and emotional development, Lily is working to revitalize the arts in Ghana – as an extracurricular activity and in traditional classrooms – through community and school workshops, a mobile arts bus and by strengthening the ties between arts teachers across Ghana.

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